Button-loop



NMdeL E. PIOKHARDT.

BUTTON LOOP.

No. 403,609. Patented May 21, 1889.

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EMILE PICKHARDT, OF ISLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,609, dated May 21, 1889. Application filed June 21, 1888. Serial No. 277,758- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMILE PICKHARDT, of lslington, county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Button-Loops, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its obj eetthe production of a simple and efficient button-loop especially adapted to be used on stocking and garment supporters commonly worn by ladies and children.

My improved button-loop may be made of a frame of sheet metal or wire bent or shaped to form two arms, united at their lower end by a cross bar or tie and free at their upper ends, the said arms having their free ends joined by a suitable connecting device, as will be described, and being contracted or bent inward to form a contracted throat, on opposite sides of which is left a button-receiving and a button-holdin g eye, the latter being formed by the portion of the arms beyond the contracted throat and the connecting device referred to, the said contracted throat being made to fit snugly the connection between the button and fabric as the loop is drawn upon to place the smaller or button-receiving eye of the loop between the button and fabric. The connecting device will preferably be a cylinder or tube, which forms a stop by which the outward movement of the arms of the button-loop is limited, whereby the natural spring or resilience of the wire or metal is prevented from being destroyed, thus insuring the closing together of the contracted throat after the connection between the button and fabric has passed into the smaller eye.

My invention therefore consists, essentially, in a metallic button-loop consisting of aframe having two arms united by a cross-bar at one end and free at their opposite ends, the said arms being bent to form a contracted throat and leave between the contracted throat. and the cross-bar a button-receiving eye, and on the opposite side of the said throat a buttonholding eye capable of being enlarged, sub stantially as will be described.

Figure 1 shows one form of button-loop embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a top or plan view-of the button-hole shown in Fig. 1, and Figs. 3 to 7 modified forms of button-loop.

Referring to Fig. 1, the frame comprising the button-loop is shown as made of a single piece of wire bent to form independent arms a and a cross-bar, a, to which the band a of the stocking or other supporter is secured.

Each arm a between its ends is bent inward,

as at b, to form a contracted throat between a button-receiving eye or opening, b, and a button-holding eye or opening, If. The button-holding eye or openingb is partlyformcd by a connecting device, shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 7 as a tube or cylinder, U, provided with a slot, 1)", the end of the said arms, as shown in Figs. 1 and 7, being bent toward each other and inserted into the ends of the said cylinder or tube, and then bent substantially at a right angle thereto, as at 12 to extend up through said slot; but instead thereof the ends of the said arms may be brought together and then bent outward away from each other, as shown in Fig. 3, the outwardly-turned ends of the said arms being extended through a slot into the cylinder or tube, the slot in this latter case being on the under side of the said cylinder.

Instead of closing the button-holding eye by means of the cylinder or tube b, the said eye maybe closed, as shown in Fig. l, by bending the ends of the arms around each other, leaving sufficient space at (Z to permit the arms a to be spread apart; or, if desired, the button-holding eye may be partially formed by independent wires (Z (P, pivoted, as at (Z to the arms a, and connected together by holding the said wires over each other, as shown in Fig. 5, the wires d d turning on their pivots when the arms a are moved.

Instead of making my improved button-loop of wire it may be made of sheet 1netal,as represented in Fig. 0, the button-holding eye 11 being partially formed by the pieces 6 e, of sheet metal. pivoted, as at 6 to the arms a and to each other, as at e.

If desired, my improved button-loop, when made of Wire, may be provided with two loops or openings, 6 6, through which the band of the stockingor other supporteris passed, the said button-loop provided with the loops 6 6 being formed of a single wire, as shown in Fig. '7.

In operation the button on the waist or other garment is first passed through the eye b of the button-loop frame, and the latter is then drawn upon to cause the connection between the button and fabric to which the said button is secured to pass through the contracted throat into the eye or openinglfi, which. is J smaller than the said button.

As the connection between the button and fabric passes through the contracted throat, the arms a are spread apart; but they come together again after the said connection has passed into the eye b the free or disconnected end of the arms a permitting the said arms to exert their natural resilience or spring'action, the upper end of each arm, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 7, sliding in the cylinder-tube b and the outward movement of the same being limited by the ends of the slot 19 I claim- 1. A metallic button-loop consisting of a frame having two arms, a, united by a crossbar at one end and expansible at their opposite ends, the said arms being bent to form a contracted throat and leave between the contracted throat and the cross-bar a button-receiving eye, and on the opposite side of-the said throat a button-holding eye capable of being enlarged, substantially as described.

2. A metallic button-loop consisting of 'a frame having two arms, a, united by a crossbar at one end and expansible at their opposite ends, and a connecting device, substantially as described, to unitesaid expansible ends, the said arms being bent to form a con- 'tracted throat and leave on opposite sides thereof a button-receiving and a button-holding eye, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMILE PICKHARDT.

Witnesses:

J AS. I-I. CHURCHILL, B. DEWAR. 

